Clifton Park man, 22, who kidnapped and sexually abused three boys is sentenced to 20 years in jail

BALLSTON SPA -- A serial sex offender who preyed on young boys will spend 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to kidnapping and sex crimes.

Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III described Eric Loeser's crimes as "vile" and said the man should be "permanently removed from our community."

Loeser victimized three boys between 9 and 15 years old over the course of several years after befriending two of them as an emergency medical technician.

Loeser, 22, of Reed Lane in Clifton Park befriended a child's family in 2009 and began acting as the child's "big brother." According to the prosecutor, he encouraged the 9-year-old boy to claim his parents were abusing him and said he would adopt him. Then, over the course of several months, he sexually assaulted the boy.

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Later, he befriended another 13-year-old by claiming he helped his friend with a medical emergency while he was an EMT. After befriending the boy, Loeser again encouraged the child to become "emancipated" from his family and come to live with him. Then Loeser sexually assaulted him.

Loeser was finally arrested after he kidnapped a 15-year-old boy from an Albany child care facility and kept him hidden away from law enforcement and other authorities who were searching for him. He traveled to Pennsylvania, Vermont and as far west as Buffalo, where he dumped the child at an apartment complex near the Canadian border.

While hiding the boy from authorities over the course of 20 days, he sexually assaulted the young teen multiple times.

"This predator's sexual attack on three boys is so vile, he should be permanently removed from our community," Murphy said. "Mr. Loeser's acts are textbook facts for a civil confinement case that the Attorney General's Office may wish to examine in the future."

Loeser had an accomplice in that kidnapping, Timothy Kaye, who already pleaded guilty to kidnapping and third-degree criminal sex act. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 29 and is expected to face eight years in prison and 20 years of post-release supervision.

"This conviction was only possible because of the incredible strength and the courage that the child victims had to come forward and report the defendant's abuse to authorities," Assistant District Attorney Michele Schettino said.